What makes someone a Photographer?
Do you become a Photographer when you start watermarking your photos?
When you buy an interchangeable lens camera?
When you make a business facebook page for yourself?
Or is Photographer a state of mind?
Going into this season I knew I wasn’t a Photographer.
I was planning on skiing a lot and making a lot of videos.
This is one of the only still images I took away from last season.
Not so great…
A shot from opening day this season I was stoked about.
I used to think everybody with a big camera was a Photographer.
Then I got a big camera and spent a month thinking I was a big shot Photographer.
I thought about making a webpage, maybe watermarking my closeups of flowers.
It didn’t take me too long to realize how special I wasn’t.
I found out about shooting film.
I watched as people had arguments about things I had never heard of.
I realized that good photos do not necessarily contain exciting things.
I started to learn about the “art” of photography.
Me trying to get a little more art and a little less artsy.
Just because someone has a Facebook photography page doesn’t mean that what they are making is worthwhile.
Two of my recent photos that I was stoked about.
Now after over a year of activity on Newschoolers I am stoked about how little I know.
I am excited about my ignorance because there is so much to learn.
